[penguicon-general] Fannish Material To Read

[Seth Breidbart]

"Matt Arnold" <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/18/06, Seth Breidbart <sethb at panix.com> wrote:

>> No, *convention fandom* is about attending cons.
>>
>> Fanzine fandom is where it all started.
>
> You'd have a point if I had spoken in the past tense, and you're
> correct only where you use the past tense.

There's plenty of fandom not involving conventions.

> For instance, TANSTAAFL died with Freon, after an abortive attempt
> to hand it off to me. Can you point out any fanzine fandom to me?

Yes.  (Hint: look at the Hugo Awards.)

For that matter, there's plenty of fandom on the Internet that doesn't
involve conventions.  That seems a lot closer to fanzine (or APA)
fandom than to convention fandom, doesn't it?

>  I suggested a panel topic for ConFusion, "Internet Killed The
> Fanzine Star", and it is on the schedule; I look forward to
> discussing this with you there.

Should be fun.

Seth